ROSTON'S BIG LOSS,
Blizzard in That City More De-
structive Than Fire.
MANY WERE DROWNED.
Wrecks Dot the Coast From Cape Ann to
Cape Cod—-The Loss to Property on Land
by the Storm Was Tremendous— Horses
Electrocuted in the Streets by Falling
Trolley Wires,
A despatch from Boston, says: At least
twenty-one persons were drowned and
$2,000,000 loss was infifeted by the blizzard
that swept over New England Monday night
and Tuesday,
Four unidentified bodies lia in the coro-
ner’s office at Gloucester, Five more are in
Lyons, brought over from Little Nahant,
where the schooner Charles I. Briggs was
wrecked. Twelve unidentified bodies are at
Baker's Island, in Salem harbor. They, too,
while in life, must have manned some of the
schooners that were lost in (iloucester har
bor. That there are others in the waters of
the Bay seems almost certain.
Wreckage 1s strewn up and down the const
from Cape Ana to Cape Cod. Thirty schoon-
ers were wrecked In Massachusetts bay,
On land the loss to property by the storm
was tremendous, While many horses were
killed in the streets of Boston, electrocuted
by falling trolley wires, no human being
was struck,
Twenty-four hours elapsed before direct
telegraphic communication was restored be-
tween Boston and the remainder of
world.
The cost of the storm in
mated as follows
Boston Elevated Rallway Co,,
City of Boston, $80,000: Western
egraph Co., 220,000: Postal Telegraph Co.,
$10,000; Long Distance Telephone (
$5,000; New England Telephone Co,
000; Electric light companies, 4.000
losses, due to disabled equipment and
fective wires, $100,000: Stenm railroads
damage to property and loss
$125,000; T.oss to ping
$250,000: Loss to Boston's busin
about $600,000; total, about #1.500
Swept by sn Huge Wave,
The pilot-boat Varuna has arri
an awful experience in the storm
Capt. Willlam H. Falrfleld
jared. At 10 o'clock Mc
Varuna put Pilot MeMilla )
ard steamer Catalonia and then headed out
oto the bay. The utheasteriy hurricane
soon afterward swept over the bay and the
pilot boat was tossed fearfully.
Captain Fairfleld was the
on the boat and he was
cockpit aft. Suddenly and
log a great wave swept over
itern, throwing Captain Fairfield
binnacle. He was nearly
picked up. his r
sud he was also hurt on the sh
These Vessels Escaped.
Among the other arrivals was the steamer
Saturn, Captain Wiley, from Newport News,
with the barge Lone ar in tow, After
passing Highland ¥ the vessel
was sheltered
remained durin ! was unin-
mared. Both the steamer and © were
heavily iceclad.
Gale mud Snow at Vineyard Haven.
The first information trom Vineyard Haven
since the storm was received
it states that a violent casteriy gale, with a
velocity of 53 miles an hour, swept over that
section Monday night and cagsed extremely
sigh tide, Telegraph and telephone
were prostrated and damage
the
Boston esti-
Fire
de-
interests
the (
standing
with
the
3
diGer,
an
arge
Wednesday
ines
considerable
THE NEWS.
The First Presbyterian Church In New A!
bany, Ind., has been totally destroyed by
fire, Loss, $50,000,
Two laborers ware fatally injured by the
caving in of the walls of a sewer trench iu
which they were, at Newark, N. J.
United States District Judge Do Haven
has rendered an opinion which will have
the effect of erecting another strong bare
rier against Chinese laborers and eriminals,
The opinlon Is to the effect that the action
of the Collector of the Port is not even
prima facts evidence of the right of a Chin-
ese to land,
As a result of the trust recently formed
prices of wires and nails are advancing.
The Mclutyre block in Winnipeg was de
Stroyed by flre. The bullding was four
stories, and contained some of the leading
stores in the city, The total losses will
in the neighborhood of 500,000,
A big three-story sulphite mill at Menom-
fnee, Mich., was blown to pleces by the ex.
piosion of one of the dijectors. Peter Borrst,
engineer, was killed outright Bteffon
was fatally fvjured, and Louis Lefre had bis
skull fractured
Ex-collector of Internal Re
Fraocisco 0, M. Welbure
the United States Grand Ju
at large, and the indictment
upon the secret file its
be made public,
Frank 8. Wright shot and killed himsell in
Chicago when lmprisonment for confessed
embezzlement stared him fn the fac He
had been married less than three weeks and
bore a good reputation, Wright was collec.
tor for the F, H. Publishing Com-
pany,
C. G. Hoyt, of the Fort Hall Indian Com
mission, has practi ally concluded a treaty
with the Baunock and Shoshone Indians ! ir
the sala of Fort Hall reservation for
£525,000,
Warrants bave been fssued
be
SAM
Welburn
placed
is
was
cannot
80 contents
Collier
th
ihe
the Pq
forty San Fran-
with ing
labels, which they
from
ilce Courts for the arrest of
druggists, charged
under counterfeit
» be bogus,
ulacturing company
clseo
pel piiis
Knew
The complainant |
of New York,
The six-year-old daughter of A.
of Santa Monies, Cal., was bitten } ¥
over three ago aod died
I'uesday, having shown every sympt
’ s ’ J V3
il NAD
ious dog weeks
Bahia
bydr paola,
Charles Zan the New )
Was suspected of having m
Wives and an employe,
harces of {or Al i
aarges of forgery and gran
i
i
Grand Jury did not iz
in
murder which was
s Po
oping Hat (
W. H. Bird, at
former cashier
{ the
Bank of Massachu
grand jary or
ng 29,000 of the
The trout
i it
The ralire
have been swindled t of th
r paupe
was +5 I
rad ’
raers |
Fanoer
seek his fortune in
panied by (
New York.
Mrs, Margaret |
ently-seven vears
Preston, who was ¢
was done along the water front. A fleet of
ressels harbored at the Vineyard
st their anchorage Ice King, with |
as wrecking scow and apparatus, was ob]
0 abandon the Was
wo men on board. The
danknown,
lay safely
ihe tug
cow, which
fata nf
BAS OX
BOTH TRIED SUICIDE
Double Attempt to End Life at Wash
ington
A dispateh from Washington, D. C
~The su‘ecidal mania attacked Walter
for, 8 Treasury clerk, and [
daughter Lucy.
Miss Taylor has been in ill-health for
lime past, and ber iliness assumed a su
dal form. About o'clock in the me ruling
ihe plunged through a window and fell into
ssnow-bank. She then ran terribly eut i
oruised through the streets, and.
half-hour search, was found bya police
She was taken home and it was
lound that during her absence her f
tad hanged himself by a rope attached
a boller of a stove, Neither father
daughter will die,
. SAYS
Tay-
year-old
fod
Qi
BURIED IN THE RUINS,
Explosion of a Digester Wrecks =a Paper
Min,
The three-story brick building of the
Park Paper Mills, at Marinette, Wis. was
wmpleteiy wrecked by the explosion of a
digester,
One man, Peter Bor<t, was instantly killed.
Samuel Steffen was buried in the ruins and
is probably dead. Louis Lefebre was fatally
injured by falling debris, The explosion
snd collapse of the plant shook the city,
Fumes cf sulphur used in the manufacture
of paper made the work of rescue extremely
bazardous and there is little doubt that
Steffen has been smothered. The loss to the
Marinette and Menomines Paper Company
is about £50 000,
QUICK TRAVEL TO KLONDIKE,
Completion of Aerial Rallway Over the
Chilkoot Passe,
Hugh C. Wallace, president of the Chil-
koot Railroad and Transportation Company,
at Tacoma, Wash. bas advices of the com-
pletion of the company's serial railway
sver the Chilkoot Pass to Lake Linderman.
This marks a new ares from Klondike tray-
8, as the time between tide water and the
aeadwaters of the Yukon River is shortened
from a month to oue day, besides removing
she peril and hardships. The company made
/ a contract with the Canadian government a
fifteen cents per pound for transportacion of
all its freight.
EARTHQUAKE SHAKEN,
Great Distress Cansed In Tarkey Many
Fatalities Have Resulted.
Violent earthquake shocks have been felt
at Balikeer and around Brusa, in Asia
Minor.
Numerous fatalities hav: resulted, and
great damage has been done,
The Suitan has subscribed £5800 for the
relief of the sufferers. He bas dispatched
8 relies! committee to the sosnes of the die
aster, aud bas ordered the Milster of Fi.
tstug 10 take stevs to succor the injured. |
Presid
goidier in two
Mrs, William }
states amt
ass
in his
| Griggs sent
hn Gs dg: y the New Jersey
iaty and
ate, will take the oath
I'he International Paper Com Moy, a
bination of nearly all the big firtns i:
country, was incorporated at Albany, N.
with a capital of 845,000,000,
A suit in which prominent silver men
interested was begun in the court
tiae, Mieb., to the
the Bland ison silver act,
Five thousand operatives of the
and Pacific Cotton Miils, at
Mass., accepted the ten per cent.
in wages
R. 8, Ogden, a merchant of
Va., and bis son, George, were arrested ona
charge of forgery.
The locomotive of a freight t
ed near Helena, W. Va., killing
and fireman,
General Harris M. Plaisted,
of Maine, died at Bangor.
¥
re, President Yoorhees, of the
as his successor
at
Lost onstitutionality
Atlantic
Lawrence,
reduction
Sandis, W,
r
a explod-
he engineer
Lo - Ve
Some idea of the atteation that the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad is paying to
its passenger traffic may be gained from the
fact that during the past 18 months nearly
800 passenger cars received thorough and
ordinary repairs, 669 being repaloted.
Nearly all of the equipment is pow Royal
Blue, and most of it is equipped with
Pintach gas, the Pintsch light being used on
local as well as through trains,
NEW INVENTIONS,
now
In a new scrubbing brush the handle is
made hollow to hold water which can be
discharged in small quantities through a
BORD compartment to the floor by turning
the pivoted handle so its outlet registers
with the opening leading to the soap cham-
ber, the latter being perforated on the under
side to discharge the fluid to the bristies,
Needle baths can be taken in ordinary
bathtubs by using a newly-designed dis-
charge pipe, which is of spiral shape and
has perforations on the front side, the de.
vies being mounted on the wall of the bath.
room and connected to the water pipe by a
rubber bose to throw jets of water into the
tub,
To preserve perishable articles in bottles a
newly patented apparatus has a nozzle
through which air is exhausted from the
bottle, with a tube loosely fixed in the suc
tion pipe. A plunger joside has sealing ma-
terial at the end, which drops us soon as the
exhaustion of air is completed and seals the
bottle,
Flies are killed by a pew trap, which has
a fist board, on which sugar or molasses is
placed, a spring board being suspended
above It and released automatically by a
clock mechanism 10 {uli on the bottom board
and cateh the insects, after which the elock
raises the board again and bolds it Jong
enough to allow more flies to gather on the
board,
Found Frosen to Death.
J. J. Rorns, aged thirty, a prominent
druggist, war found dead at South Pors.
Loss of the Steamer Channel
Queen Off Guernsey,
DIE
the Vessel-Survivors Were Taken ON
with Kopes Escape of the Crew--The
Muke Gallant Rescues,
A cablegram from Plymouth, Eng., says
vielpity la
morulug,
[tls known that at least twenty-two lives
were lost,
many years occurred Tuesday
I'he mall steamer Channel Queen, plying
between this port and tne Island of Je
t Vessel lost,
reey
mptaly was saved
baune! Queen struce
during un 1
The
Wand sank
lisuster occurred off the [sland of
Grurrosey,
At first It was
bad been lost,
reported that thirty
Later in the day the owners of the (
nel Queen announesd
persons on board of her when she struck
Only two are kuown to have drowned.
Still later, however, the news of the vers
life turned out to be lucorreet
it that twenty twe
ban-
MUD loss of
f!
or intest # Duve
HYes were j«
Ihe ( Jueen 4 engines were re
versed, wher but I
Was 1
rocks were
The first
sought help of the fisher
meer
reached ian
men rey dues, aithougt
aelr Lost from ap
1
AUD BUIVIVYL
who inde gallant
t
rs bad
8% Lo the
the last t
report is that twenty ty
he oh f i, rit - '
he ie! engineer, three
I passengers, ind ing
t3¢
Wa Were frowns
Lhe paas
SLATGHTERED HIS FAMILY,
and Wounds Wife and Others.
tb
Arkans £ piace in
HM. F, Autrey, a farmer
is family, went
.
LO visit bi
rritvs crimes ever
Fr
as lo
AR
3
estimate « ntag-
{ ¢
lous diseas
port
og second ar
sleam veasein
Secretary Dillag sant to ( SNR Toss
of the Dawes Commission
Mississippi Choeatows
» hoiding that
ander their treaties
are not entitied to ali the Choctaw citizen.
ship rights except an interest the Choo
taw annuities,
Secretary Bil has sent ¢
Lands Committee s of
House a
acting s the Yellowst
National Park for an exter n of the limits
of that Om
mies
and
ung
the Renate the
d by Col. ¥
endent of
bil prepare the
v
t
iperin fie
ressrvation square
The Baerotary of the Navy has sent to
Congress additional def) rienoy estimates for
an appropriation of §18 400 for the removal
of eonstrustion and repair tools, &o, from
building No. 14, Iu the Brooklyn Navy Yard
which Is reported in
tion.
Senator Allen's proposed amendment to
the Indian appropriation bill, providing for
a Congress of Indian tribes next fall at the
Omaha exposition, was favorably reported
by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
It provides an appropriation of $45,000 for
the service,
The Senate Committees on Commerce ag-
thorized the reportiog of a bill, in accord.
anos with the recommendation of the Treas.
ury Department, establishing a steamboat
inspectors’ district for Alaska. The purpose
of the measure i= to insure the inspection of
vessels on the Yukon River,
The Ericsson bas sailed from Mobile for
Key West, The Alert has arrived at San
Juan del Sur,
Lieut, L. L. Bsamey and Lieut. G. T. lo
gan have been granted two months’ leave of
absence,
Gep, George H. Weeks, Quartermaster
General of the Army was placed on the re.
tired list by operation of law on account of
age.
Benator Carter, who is a member of the
sub-committee on Alaska for three different
committees of the Senate, has prepared and
Introduced a bill to amend an aot providing
a civil government for Alaska,
The minority report of elections commit.
tee No. 1 on the contested election case of
William ¥. Aldrich vs, Thomas 8 Plowman.
in the Fourth Alabama Distriet, was made
to the House Thursday, The majority un.
seated Plowman, It claims that Plowmas
was elected by over 2.000 votes, The min.
ority report is signed by Messrs, Bartiett
a dangerous condi
Fox and Settle,
|
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
Turkisa troops tried to enforee the pay-
ment of taxes at Lazaring, but the peasants
resisted with Nlrearms, and a regular battle
followed,
In an engagement between Spanish forces,
commanded by Gen, Luque, aud the insur
gents in the Mejia district of Cubatwo Span
ish oMoers, including a son of the general,
were wounded,
The British forces had an encounter with
the tribesmen near Bhinksmer, Indiasua, and
suffered serious losses, including the killing
of several officers,
Chinese officials say that Russian warped
China that if Kino Chou were granted to
Germany, Russia would demand Ta Lien
Wan or Port Arthur,
Consul General Loo gave a banquet at the
Havana Yacht Club-house to the officers of
the warship Maine,
Ma. Gladstone
with neuralgia,
has again been suffering
Jules Emile Pean, the French surgeon. is
dead
Rev, George HH, Hepworth. in a letter from
Asintie Turkey, gives inter
view with an of
his race,
interesitog
tre
AbD
Armenian or ubles
The Spanish authoritie say that the diary
of Arenguren, the lpsurgent leader
who was killed, shows that he ordered the
execution of Colonel Iuiz,
‘0's staff, who went to him
peace,
young
of General Blan
with terms for
tak
naval
The minister of marine at Ottawa Is
ing steps to form a forces of Canadian
militia for services on the Great Lakes.
Canadian manufacturers
asked the government at Ottawa to Img
a duty of 89 on each blevole imported from
the United States
[he birthday of }
more generally
Germany,
bicycle have
OE
mperor William was
elebrated thar wual in
A
of the
ted 10 ac
majority strik British ex
ing
se pt
Rineers havo y
the employers,
heavy sn
he Black soa.
MRIVARO
Madrid
ter We
NOWKDA per
GHEAT BOND SALES,
More Than S900.000.000
Worth Bought
in One Clty
CALIFORNIA'S JOMILEE,
An Electric Flash Across the Continent
Opens a Fair in San Francisco
» mining fair, which was
' Pavilion, is
teresting exposily
It is beid in celebration ¢
versary of the discovery of
fornia
Amopg the exhibits is 2
of the North Bloomfl
hydraulic mine in
interesting
a represontati
drift mining
Visitors can aiso see a
which different motals sre
Lis aver
the
equally exhibit is
roating. Nearly
ail represented
the different counties of the State have
mining machinery is
tarkable exhibits of ores.
AMMUNITION FOUND WORTHLEsMS
Flimsy Shrapnel Said to Have Been Fur.
nished by « Washington « ompany.
Testa of shirapnel shots fur
Army have
BE. Babbitt, of Benecia
Cailfornia., Twenty-six shells fired,
atd 50 per cent, of the ammunition was
The flimsy
shrapnel was furnished by an ordnance com.
pany of Washington. Al fused by
electricity were exciudad from the twenty.
six rounds selected by Lieut. Babbit,
United States
arsena)
were
shells
BLOCEKADES IN THE WEST.
Furious Storms in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Indiana.
Raports from various towns in Michigan,
Northwestern Wisconsin and Northern In-
diana tell of a severe Llizzard which raged
in that section of the couutry. The wind
blew a gale, and buge snow drifts piled in
the highways, All trains were more or less
delayed, and in some towns stroet raliway
traffic has been entirely suspended, The re.
port from Marquette, Mich., states that the
storm on the Iake was fearful.
On a Mission of Peace.
Prior to the sailing of the first-class ar-
mored erusier Vizeaya from Carthagena for
the United States the admira! made a
sproch 10 the crew, during which he said:
“You are charged with a mission of
peace.”
This announcement was greeted with
cheering, and the other ships in the harbor
and the crowds of people au the quays also
heered for Spain,
Divided as to Sunday Mail,
There is a lively contest bn at the peace-
ful town of New Market, Tenn, whose post
master bas been opening the offles on Sun-
day. Some of the preachers object snd
bave delivered sermons dwelling upon the
subject.
Preferred Death to Disgrace,
Frank 8 Wright shot and kilied himself at
Chieags when Imprisonment for confessed
embezzlement stared him io the fase He
bad been married less thao three weeks and
bad borne a good reputation,
SPAIN'S BIG BURDEN.
Two Years of War in Cuba
Cost Her $240,000,000.
MAIL. TAMPERED WITH,
Letters From the ( nited States Habltunily
Opened and Nowspapeors are Frequently
Undelivered The Autonomic Govern.
ment of Using the Election
Machinery for Its Own Vurposes.
Accused
Febru
ood
The cost of the Caban war from
ary, 1805, to the end of 1807
mated in Madrid at 240,000,000, besides the
nrrears from the (
amounting to £40,000, 000,
The Impareial complains that
mercial negotiations between Ky ain,
and the United States
to Benor de Lome, the
Washington, and goverpment
Appoint experts to examine the terms of
treaty on Spain's behalf
Mall matter in the Havana Pe
tinues tampered with,
eighteen extra men duty opening letters
and reading DeWEPRApOrs
While European mall matter gets i
all right, correspondence from the United
States, especially from and Key
West, Is most carefully exami Ietters
from Madrid t ‘ the
due uban treasury
the com
f 21
i iha,
are belng intrusted
Spanish Minister at
urges the 10
tha
Las
gtoffiee cor
to be There are
on
before
hrough
l'ampn
embers of
party are opened. The delivery of
News
and are often
not delivered at all, In V cases, jeter
He packages reach thelr
ie
CRB
the fallure causing severe
ported that this system of insg
prompted by
f +}
LAr
soli
¥ of the gaovernmont
Discontent Among the Cubans.
fireat dise
men
# steadily
3 i »
eRging
flesh]
ation
eight of
Bough ever
the streots as
others. me
to regain
is dalls
1 is distrit
he insurgents have
ited noeentirad
iYonmited ard
ratiroad line
Havana
pontoon
*
stroyed a pear Sa
provinee
ABOUT NOTED PROPLE
I'he recent adpearance of
House me i
“stogie” illustrates the extent 4
plebeian production of the American t
manufacturer bas made its
sociely
Npeaker jieed in
the obby a Wheeling
which tbat
Dee
way into “polite
One hundred
summoned to appear in
mon Pleas Ravenna
wherein Mary Ellen Rogers
Rogers for a divorce on the grounds that,
having lived with her 40 vears. he never
took ber anywhere, not even to church.
Rev. W, H. Morrison pastor of a Univer
salist chureh in Manchester, N. H.. has v«
untarily relinquished $500 of his $2000 ap-
nual salary, because of the cut-down of 10
per cent. in the wages paid at the mills and
the consequent hard times in the parish and
the town. The church gratefully accepted
the offer.
Mme, Verdi's will Las just been proved at
ome. The deceased lady saved a modest
fortune before her marriage to Verdi. and
while she was still a popular operatio primoa
donna. Of this about #7500 now goes to
bulld a hospital at Villanova, and the bal.
ance in smaller sums is devoted to various
*haritios,
tev. A. T. Porter, D. D., has resigned the
tectorship of the Protestast Episcopal
Chureh in Charleston, § C., which he has
tield for fortysfour years. It is related that
be preached bis first sermon to a few on
January 8, IS54, fa a long. narrow room.
with a few bare benches, without carpet, not
a sash in the windows, and without a stove,
George Byron and “Bud” Tennyson live
near the thriving settlement of High Gap,
Ga, Strangely enough they got into an ar-
gument on a literary sobject the other day.
and it was decided they shonld fight it oat.
Both men put up a i fight, but finally,
after 17 hotly-comntested rounds. Byron
knocked Tennyson out,
Truman H. Handy, the banker of Cleve-
innd, who has just celebrated his 81st birth.
day, loaned $2,500 to John DD. Rockefeller
when the latter started in business,
Mrs, Susan E. Wattles, who has just died
in Kansas, was the widow of Augustus
Wattien, the close friend and coworker of
John Drown in the “underground railway.”
There is a movement on foot in Hartford,
Conn., to erect a suitable monument to the
memory of Henry Clay Work, the suthor of
“Marching Through Georgia.”
seven wilnesse
the Co
Wore
irt of Come
the
Voiney
0, in
i
sued
vie
‘Latest News Gleaned from
Various Parts of the State.
LARGE COAL SALES.
Great Rush for Unsold Land in Fayette
County Boys of Tender Years Confess
to Robbery in Altoona Clinton Concern
Organizes With 8125,000 Capital ~Other
Live News,
Rome ths
pur-
ml Ce
sales are reported in
The latest
| shases wers made by Tide C
| pany from Harvey J. Kieelo and Joseph HK
Elliott, each selling about 160 meres at $185.
Heury Ploersheim. the Pittsburg coal opera.
| tor recently purchased 550 acres in the same
| field. There is a rush on for the unsold eosl
ff Fayette county, and it is estimated that
| two or threes million dollars worth will be
{ #0ld this year. Within the last year mueh of
f the coal along the be.
| tween Bros has
| been bought ip.
George Wilkins, aged 9,
| aged 10, and Louis Levi
arrested in Alt
{ of
! robbed the Union
{ aud Sunday night
| money drawer in the long
phote at the Logan House,
| the money, At a hearing ti
large coal
|
Monongahela River region
the
Monongahela River,
svilie and Polat Marion,
Willlamm Wilkins,
aged 11 years, were
oua charged with a sumber
Saturday unight the boys
News Company's
broke open
robberies,
office
the
tele
and extracted
on fessed
they
distance
188 been
Haven with
fire brick
organized
oO eroct extensive
give employ
hande. The com
at Monu
25,700 capital, t
, whic}
im ber «
1,240 acres
Millb
Al the
ment, 16 mii
will be
Re
i vATSeY
ir &
surprises and h
had bee
re. Bagiey
i age, and at one
oy
shipped t Minery and
ther supplies 1
of a wire tra
It will take sev
ara
woe)
10 reash its destinatios
that
way will be able t
by time that the
Associate Judge C. G
violent i lis pieigh and
ur after
Mur
lia, was thrown
#0 badly injured that he
belts ccoveved to his
phy and his daught
from their home avou
noon for a sleigh ride
driving along the road
the
Judge
, Started
t 8 « alter
to Mt While
A STOW Sweeper
Carmel,
on
traction line frig ned the horse and it
Dar
overin
hie
ng the animal's mad Jight
raed and the occupants
1 3 The udge’s head
struck against a stone, fracturing his skull
Miss Murphy was painfaliy bruised, but not
seriously injured. Judge Morphy was &
prominent Columbia County eit baving
been Associate Judge of that o« uaty the past
ten years,
ran sway
out
en,
EE — ee u—
Enterprising French Village,
in the mune of meeau-sur-Oles,
not far from
only 250
lighted by
found in
1 even in
farm buildings in the neighborhood of
the village are Hluminated in the same
manner. More than this, the commune
possesses a jarge thrashing machine
driven ty electric power and capable of
thrashing 0% sheaves of grain per
hour, besides turnip entters, crushers,
sorters, pumps and other agricultural
machinery, all set In motion by elec
tricity, he power is derived from a
waterfall and by combining their in
terests the Inhabitants of the commune
have made sclence illuminate their
gireets and houses at night and drive
their machines bir day more cheaply
than these things could be done by the
old methods. —8an Francisco Argonaut,
= Is
inhabitants,
are
hoaees ¢ he stables, and the
Spltzbergen Hotel
The hotel recently erected in Spits.
hergen Is thus described: Built in Nor
weglan style, it has a large hall, and a
quantity of smaller rooms, with thirty
beds, It ix also provided with a book
for visitors’ names, among which may
now be seen those of Sverdrup, Fulda,
Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, E.
Vely, and others. The climate of
Spitzborgen is said to have the most
favorable Influence on persons suffer
ing from chest diseases.
Two Grand DM visions,
Teacher-How
mankind are there?
Eobby-My paw says it is divided
into the people who earn a living